What to blog about....
Posted by Mark Stephan
Hello All,
I have several blog posts that I’m drafting, and I’m wondering which ones you’d like me to pursue writing.
Generally how I write is a thought grabs my interest, either something I came across during the day, or something I’ve been pondering for a long time. So I open a file and write some, and then close it, waiting until I have time to go back, write more, reflect on my thoughts, and publish it. But, as you can guess, far more remains in draft than ever gets published.
So I figured hey, blogging is supposed to be interactive, so I’ll ask the community what they would like me to expound on, and finish so they can see my thoughts. So here is a current list of things swimming around in my draft folder, mind, and what not. Let me know through the comments what You’d like to read, or simply put, none of it. It’s all boring.
Church / Theological Issues
- How to be a Sending Church
This is an article that really outlines how a church, no matter the size, can create a sending engine that mobilizes and and sends individuals, keeping itself in alignment with the Theology of the New Testament Church. Actually this is a summary of something much larger I’m writing. This article is basically a HOW TO Guide.
- Cross-Cultural Church Planting According to the New Testament Church aka Experiencing Biblically-based Church Planting Movements
This is an interesting article that goes into the Holy Spirit Driven Strategy of the New Testament Church, how it grew, spread, and met the diverse cultures around it. Examples will be taken solely from the Bible, and inferences will be extrapulated to see how such systems could be instituted today.
- Gossip, the Cancer of the Church
This subject is near to my heart, as I am guilty of it as well. It is so hard to be a believer and control the tongue. Yet, if we do not struggle to keep control of this, the whole body loses. Whether from out right gossiping, to the less obvious prayer-gossip, we all need to learn to control what we say, and to whom we say it.
- Biblical and Unbiblical Contextualization in Missions: Bringing Back Missions to the Heart of God
This is actually a blog post that probably should, and will, end up being a much larger article, if not a book. It takes a deeper look at what is the form of modern missions, and how it either aligns with Biblical missional principles, or how it diverges from it, and what should be done about that.
- Reformed Theology’s impact on Missions
This blog post is very similar to the one above it. How does Reformed Theology impact Missions today. While this article won’t delve into Reformed Theology itself, it will talk about how Reformed Theology effects Missions, and examples we can see today in the Modern Missions movement of this, and examples of divergence from it.
- The Unity of the Body of Christ: How to Keep Unity in the Midst of Theological Debate
This could be a very interesting post in that it’s something I’m always struggling with. How to have interesting discourse that spurs one another on to knowing truth, without creating discord. When one should be careful in creating discord, and when one should not. The fine line between allowing mutual disagreement, and allowing heresy.
Political
- How Political Banter Turns Personal: Racism and the Slander of the Individual.
This one is a bit personal. I got a message from someone saying, and I summarize, that people like Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Right Wingers, Conservatives, Born-Again Christians are all racist wasps. While I try to keep political discourse to the facts, statements like this really frustrate me because it shows a lack of decorum, and that they can’t have a real debate besides attacking people personally. While I do not agree completely with the aforesaid individuals, I do enough to see this as a personal attack against me. So I’d like to write an article to discuss those statements, and why such statements do not make a better world, but makes people more ignorant and creates human beings who believe dribble.
